Last week, the House of Lords, the highest court in England and Wales, decided that police will be able to keep DNA and fingerprint records of people on file indefinitely, even if they are cleared. According to the rulers, the need to solve crimes outweighs civil liberties concerns.

Lord Brown, one of the five law lords who ruled last week, argued that the benefits of this procedure were so manifest and the objections so threadbare that the cause of human rights would be better served by expanding the police database rather than by reducing it.

From The Register and The Telegraph.